kaberett | [brainlog] {there's something wrong with me}

Dropped vitD from 20000iu/week to 5600iu/week in mid-Jan. Next bloods due mid-April. When I started supplementation my brainwrong got massively better within 2-3 weeks.

Over the past 2-3 weeks I've started going Wrong again. I've had three days of Not Getting Out Of Bed in the last week or so; sharp uptick in intrusive thoughts of SI/non-existence; drop-off in my ability to believe I'm any use to anyone ever; sleep cycle's over the past week or so started shifting back towards "2am-whenever" (I was getting semi-stable at 11pm bedtimes); PHQ-9 was a 14 when I did it last week (and I decided this was ~just fatigue~ rather than the fatigue being, you know, a symptom); I'm moving more slowly and my executive function's pretty well non-existent; everything is slow and difficult.

I have no idea whether it's plausible for my vitD levels to have fallen off a cliff again this quickly; it's the obvious thing-that-changed. I am trying to work out whether to bump the repeat bloods up to end-of-March rather than mid-April. Scared of doing them any sooner in case it makes my GP cross (though generally he trusts me on this stuff, and when I asked about rechecking bloods last week I didn't mention I was going mad because I wasn't, really, at the time, or perhaps more accurately I hadn't noticed).

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alexseanchai

Sucks. *hugs?*

kaberett

nks <3

littlebutfierce

Ugh. Fucking brains, fucking having to worry about bugging GPs -- I hear you & it sucks to have to consider that kind of stuff instead of just being able to ask. ;__; <3333

I've gone sideways about food too, apparently (executive dysfunction/nothing appeals, not anything else).

haggis

I would definitely ask about faster blood tests. It's possible that the change in VitD dose is co-incidental but increasing your dose again would be a fairly* good test of this theory so it's not just you 'bothering' the GP - it's a diagnostic test that will give you firm evidence to get an appropriate dose level in future. (Although I understand this is hard - don't mean to be bossy.)

*It's not foolproof because of the placebo effect but if restarting the VitD doesn't affect your mood, that is also useful data.

davidgillon

Even if it might take longer to affect your base vitD levels, dropping the supplement by about 70% is going to affect the amount of newly arrived vitD floating in your bloodstream and trying to convince the rest of your body it's really summer. So, yes, I'd try and work around to getting bloodtests done soon (which is a reminder to me I need to get them done as well).

jjhunter

Thank you for the reminder that I really, really need to get my vitD levels checked asap; I've had a lurking sense of wrong wrong wrong these last few weeks I haven't followed up on yet and it's time, dammit, I have to operate heavy machinery for my engineering class and it's dangerous to be impaired.

/goes back to bed, having begged all necessary allowances for a bad brain day because feeling drunk with lacking sleep...and stuff